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by phil21 2y ago
China is already producing top-tier parts at the current set wages. Wages are unlikely to increase as quality of production goes up - it's already world class. That's the argument as I see it at least. I tend to mostly agree, wi
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by phil21 2y ago
> but there is a key difference: sales tax is uniform for all products Sales tax is not uniform for all products depending on your state. My home state for example does not charge sales tax on food items and clothing. Some other specia
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by phil21 2y ago
> its goal isn’t “reducing safety margin” Sure it is. That's exactly how it achieves the higher profitability. Safety margin costs money. Otherwise known as inefficiency. Slack in the system is a good thing, not a bad thing. Ope
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by phil21 2y ago
This might be one of the most paranoid things I've ever read on HN. The laborer was simply trying to actually get paid vs. deal with the overhead of the app. Somewhat shady perhaps - since it routes around the company taking their cut
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by phil21 2y ago
Depending on where you live this is pretty affordable for even an average midwestern senior dev salary. Especially in a two income household. As in cut out daily Starbucks level affordable. It’s the first “luxury” I pay for when able to r
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by phil21 2y ago
> It’s probably a violation of ToS, but customer service reps allow it and support it, so maybe it’s not actually a violation… ? It feels like corporate may eventually ban users who abuse that and cost more money than they are worth. I&#
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by phil21 2y ago
Pretty often for savvy consumers of certain product groups. It all comes from China anyways, so if you know what you're doing you can easily save 50% or more buying direct from the source vs. a reseller on Amazon. Even better if you
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by phil21 2y ago
Home Depot is usually pretty good. Bundles are available fairly commonly as starter packs if you need to start from nothing. The drill/impact kit is likely where I'd begin since both of those (gen3) are exceptional in my opinion
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by phil21 2y ago
In the US we are at all time lows for internal migration. Or at least very close to them, I haven’t checked those stats in a couple years since this last came up on HN. We used to (as a population) migrate to opportunity far more than we d
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by phil21 2y ago
Deltalina will be hard to beat as a safety mascot any time soon!
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by phil21 2y ago
> Some things maybe really are better managed by big, lawsuit-averse, emotionless companies. Completely disagree. Every poor experience I had renting was with a big emotionless company. I have never had a poor experience with a small t
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by phil21 2y ago
I have total opposite experiences from renting most of my life. I can't think of a mom and pop landlord I had a poor experience with. Financial incentives generally aligned fairly well for me. I was an extremely low-maintenance tena
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by phil21 2y ago
Fresh tomatoes worth eating raw are relatively expensive. Tomatoes (cans or buckets of sauce) used for frozen pizza are very cheap in bulk food service level packaging.
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by phil21 2y ago
1 in 5 is certainly not uncommon by any reasonable interpretation of the term. 20% of the US is an absolutely massive market many could only dream to begin to address as a customer base. That said, even that is not really all that useful.
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by phil21 2y ago
I’m convinced nearly every problem in the modern US economy boils down to a principle agent problem in the end.
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by phil21 2y ago
They would buy direct from LLY for $550/mo or pay the $650/mo via manufacturer coupon for Zepbound. If their primary care provider refuses to prescribe telehealth will trivially do it in 10 minutes for about $150 every 6mo. The o
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by phil21 2y ago
It’s just cutting out the middleman of the compounding pharmacy and/or medspa provider. If you think they take much more due care than a careful educated Chinese buyer you’re suffering from delusion and/or trusting authority too
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by phil21 2y ago
> Regarding your point about nameplate power, dispatchable sources have existed for almost a century using this convention. The only thing that came close to batteries would have been pumped storage hydro power. And rather small install
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by phil21 2y ago
It’s industry standard due to historical reasons, not because a primary concern is not how much storage (how long a given source can provide the nameplate power for) there is. Until recently the nameplate on a power source could be generall
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by phil21 2y ago
The most bang for buck "employee benefit" I ever offered to my guys back in the earl 00's was a T1 line to their home for free. We could do this since local loops to most folks were about $150-200/mo, and we already had
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by phil21 2y ago
> Serious question: why do you think that’s true? Because it has been, at least thus far. Perhaps in the hazy future this will change, and some regulatory/capacity/energy market will evolve into making such things profitable b
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by phil21 2y ago
Because fuel costs only matter so much. You will still need exactly the same number of natural gas (or similar) plants with 12 hours of battery vs. 1 hour to cover seasonal events in most places on the planet. Until your battery backup ca
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by phil21 2y ago
fwiw tirzepatide (likely the GIP component) cleared up my lifelong IBS within days of my first dose. I consider it a likely lifelong medication now simply due to that night and day difference to my life. It’s extremely rare I have a day wh
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by phil21 2y ago
> I just genuinely don't understand how people are surviving with the diets they describe. Because obese folks have stored energy reserves. The body is really good at adapting and using them. I was attempting to be at a 1k/day
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by phil21 2y ago
It’s been about 15 years now. The killer app for blockchain is Bitcoin.
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by phil21 2y ago
The chassis is made in the USA and what essentially is a fan controller circuit board. Everything else is foreign components it looks like to me. Not super exciting really. An aluminum case is nice and all, but really not material to the o
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by phil21 2y ago
I still have found nothing really comparable to the Kindle Oasis on any other platform. At least not with good enough user reviews to consider trying. I actually picked up a refurb unit to have as a spare since Amazon discontinued it. I wo
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by phil21 2y ago
The difference is that they no longer are "outsourced" sweatshops. They are just entire divisions/departments of companies with full reporting chains. Effectively interchangeable with a US remote WFH employee/departmen
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by phil21 2y ago
> What's interesting is that in many cities now, Uber and Lyft are in fact more expensive than taxis. Sure, agreed. > And the experience is equally mediocre. Absolutely not. I regret using a taxi nearly every time I opt for the
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by phil21 2y ago
Which is not scalable for the entire big city. My parents are organic market gardeners, and there is simply no way that model could scale up enough to feed that many people cheaply. Food budgets would have to go back to the 1940's or

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